Freezing cold, bitter cold, biting cold, brass-monkey weather. Derived from the adjective холодный (cold) combined with the highly expressive, colloquial suffix -рыга (which infers an unpleasant, intense, or repulsive condition). In everyday slang, it is a universally popular word used to describe extremely cold, unpleasant weather, or an uncomfortably chilly indoor environment (ну и холодрыга на улице, зуб на зуб не попадает — “it’s freezing cold outside, my teeth are chattering”).
Хорошо вам. А у нас дождь и холодрыга.
Lucky you. Here it’s raining and freezing cold.
(Фёдорыч, 10/2011)
